Re^2: Using elements to search a file

Example:

User input: 11111

Will find this line in the first file: 11111 1010101 1010102 1010103 1010104 1010105 1010106

Which puts: 1010101 1010102 1010103 1010104 1010105 1010106 into an array.

Each of those will be used as search criteria in the second file, the irst should read this line: 1010101 Address Line 1 ,Address Line 2 ,Phone Number ,Fax Number,

So I can print the information.

If that makes sense.

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Re^3: Using elements to search a file by jpearl (Scribe) on May 06, 2009 at 18:23 UTC
That does make sense. However, I think your problem is in this loop: `while ( <$contin> ) { if ( $contractors =~ m/^$string(.)/ ) { my @results = split(m#\s+#, $1); print br; print @results; } } close( $contin ); }` [download] Specifically I think you're running into a problem at `if ( $contractors =~ m/^$string(.)/ )` [download] It looks like what you want to be doing is matching every line in `$contin` against your current `$contractor` where what you're actually doing is matching `$contractor` against your regex `^$string(.)` Try changing the above regex in the while loop to have something like `while ( <$contin> ) { if ($_ =~ m/^$contractor(.)/) { my @results = split(m#\s+#, $1); print br; print @results; } } close( $contin ); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Using elements to search a file by GC (Initiate) on May 06, 2009 at 18:33 UTC
That gets me a whole lot closer. It's spitting out every line in the file, but at least it's giving me something I can work with. Thanks for getting me out of that hole, I appreciate the help.	[reply]